Encounters with Aliens on this Day

October 13

1917 - Approximately 70,000 people crowded the fields
surrounding the Cova da Iria, a grotto in Fatima, Portugal to
witness a promised miracle. Miraculous events and apparitions of the
Blessed Virgin Mary had been occurring monthly on the 13th of every month
since three children--Lucia, Jesus and Marto-- had first met a mysterious
lady in blue there in May. Not many of those in the crowd, even those
close to the three children, were able to witness the apparition of the
Lady on this day, but it is reported that everyone present saw
"something." The most common description was of a "gyrating sun" that
became a silver disc, and emitted bright rainbow shafts of light, changing
colors in succession from red to violet to blue to yellow. The flat silver
disc plunged downward toward earth in a zigzag fashion. Catholics present
interpreted these events as a sign from God, and the religious event was
later sanctioned as a miracle by the Roman Catholic Church. The prophesies
revealed that day have been kept secret by the Vatican, but reportedly
involve the assassination of "the last Pope." (Sources: Richard H. Hall,
From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the
Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 12; John A. Keel, Operation
Trojan Horse, p. 259; Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon,
p. 149; Jacques Vallee, The Invisible College, p. 143).

1954 - At 10:05 a.m. a weather observer in Nouasseur, French Morocco, following a balloon in his theodolite, saw a round, flat, silver object fly straight and level. (Don Berliner, Project Blue Book Unknowns).

1954 - At 4:30 p.m. in Graulhet, Tarn department,
France, numerous witnesses consistently reported that a white object
flew southward at full speed without leaving a vapor trail and then
exploded. At the same time a circular object, much smaller and silvery,
seemed to spurt out of the mass of debris and continue straight toward the
south. The burst of fragments scattered throughout the sky and fell gently
down like shreds of paper or cloth. The debris, which resembled silvery
filaments clinging together like cobwebs, "wilted away" when handled. This
volatile "angel hair" dropped by UFOs, usually in the month of October,
has been described many times since 1947. (Source: Aime Michel, Flying
Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 170).

1954 - Three hours later in Crocq, France, at Donjon de
Montlaur, J. Dubois and four other witnesses saw a round craft maneuver,
giving off a blinding light. It had some openings or portholes, and seemed
to come down and land far away from them. (Source: Jacques Vallee,
Passport to Magonia, p. 227).

1954 - On that same night Messrs. Olivier and Perano and a third
man in Bourrasole, France saw a reddish disc about 4 meters in
diameter with a small humanoid close by. The being stood about 1.2 meters
(5 feet) tall, wearing a diving suit. "His head was large with respect to
the rest of the body and he had two enormous eyes. The suit was bright and
shiny like glass." The Disc was surrounded by a sort of misty glow. One of
the witnesses came within 20 meters of it and found himself paralyzed. The
craft took off, throwing the man who stood closest to the ground, and rose
into the sky very fast. (Sources: La Croix, October 16, 1954; Jacques
Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 227).

1957 - On this night Antonio Villas Boas witnessed a UFO making
complex maneuvers in the sky above his family's farmhouse in Sao Francisco
de Sales, Brazil. This is three nights prior to his famous
abduction experience, which occurred in the early morning hours of October
16. (Source: Olavo T. Fontes, APRO Bulletin, July 1966, p. 5).

1967 - On this day in Le Mas, France (Lozere department)
at 12:45 p.m., a young woman saw three small beings dressed in copper-red
suits. Other observers saw only a compass needle deviate and a brief
apparition of a line of six luminous discs. (Source: David F. Webb and Ted
Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of humanoid reports, citing Lumieres dans
la Nuit, January 1968, p. 19).

1969 - At 10:00 p.m. a round object flew over Vancouver,
British Columbia. The witness reported seeing several men inside.
(Source: John Brent Musgrave, UFO Occupants and Critters, p.
49).

1971 - In the afternoon in Kladar, Bosnia (then part of
Yugoslavia) a cloud of dense "flying smoke" one kilometer long and 1 meter
wide moved in an undulating wave across the sky. (Source:
Awareness, October 1977, p. 10, citing J. Bernard Delair, UFO
Register, volume 3, 1972, case no. 121).

1972 - At 2:30 a.m., in the old part of San Juan, Puerto Rico,
Sr. Joaquin Mercado and his wife watched a triangular formation of lights
move back and forth in the sky from the terrace of their apartment. In the
early morning of the same day, twenty hospital employees of the Aguadilla
Hospital and others saw several UFOs maneuvering in the skies. The
hospital supervisor, Sra. Rosa G. de Castro, told reporters that she had
seen the dish-shaped objects, with a cone on the upper part, very clearly.
They had lights rotating around their peripheries. At one point she saw
something shoot out from one of them towards the ground, and then come
back up again. (Source: Gordon Creighton, FSR Case Histories,
December 1973, pp. 11-14).

1973 - Photographs of nighttime lights and objects were taken in
Tennessee and West Virginia, in the midst of the largest wave of UFO
sightings since 1967. In Elkhorn, West Virginia a photograph was taken of
a huge object, flashing regularly every one-third of second, which flew
toward the southeast. (Source: Ted Spickler, MUFON UFO Journal,
June 1977, p. 3)..1983 - In Gaffney, South Carolina, a
married couple awoke at 12:30 a.m. to the sound of a siren, then witnessed
a glowing orange-yellow UFO only twenty feet above their neighbor's house.
Dogs barked. The UFO, estimated as the size of Winnebago, had two beams of
light coming from the bottom. It crossed some power lines and headed to
the east toward the nuclear power plant. (Sources: George D. Fawcett case
investigations file; UFO Magazine, June 1990, p. 33).

1989 - Several UFO sightings and a report of humanoids occurred
during this day. At 10:20 a.m. in Langenburg, Saskatchewan, Canada
a silver disc hovered over a garage, moved away to the north, then came
back to hover over a barn. A 22-year-old man out driving to meet a friend
in the city of Pensacola, Florida at 8:30 p.m. saw a white,
rectangular object hovering near the approaching intersection. He lost
sight of it when he drove through the intersection because some trees
blocked his view. In Welch, Oklahoma a family of six out driving in
the evening on US Route 59 south of town saw two UFOs and two
nine-foot-tall luminous green beings, near a disc-shaped object blocking
the road. (Sources: Timothy Good, The UFO Report 1991, p. 231; Rex
and Carol Salisberry, MUFON case investigations file, case # 891007E;
UFO Magazine, June 1990, p. 31).

1997, near Gundagai, New South Wales -- On this Monday at
approximately 6 p.m. a married couple were traveling by car to Victoria
along the Hume Freeway. The weather was clear and there were no clouds in
the sky. It was warm and previously there had been a strong north wind,
but it had subsided. The witnesses were traveling toward the west and were
approximately 100 kilometers north of Gundagai, Australia. As they came
over the top of a hill, they noticed a light directly in front of them at
about 25 to 30 degrees above the horizon and to the left of the first
object. Neither object appeared to be moving.

They watched the objects for the next 30 minutes while driving toward
the objects. The distance to the objects had decreased to approximately
one mile. They were then able to see that one was triangular and the other
was a sphere with a ring around it. The objects began to throw flames from
underneath, similar to rockets, although at first neither seemed to move.
They stopped the car and got out and the UFOs started to move. The higher
object was moving away much faster than the lower one.

The witnesses got out their camera and took three photographs as the
UFOs moved higher into the sky. The top object veered to the right while
the lower one veered left. They remained lit by the sun while the
witnesses were already in the gathering darkness. Both objects turned into
black balls as the flames were emitted and remained that way. The total
observation time was approximately 45 minutes. The photographs showed many
details. The RAAF and Australian Army provided information that discounts
the possibilities that these objects were jets, missiles or rockets.
(Source: James Owen case investigation files, Victorian UFO Research
Society website).

1997 - On the same day as the Australian sighting, four lights
in a row approached a car from behind, being driven by a 30-year-old woman
at 8:30 p.m. in Struthers, Scotland. The witness drove at speeds of
90 miles per hour in an attempt to get away, and she does not remember how
she got past a sharp bend in road. Possible missing time of about ten
minutes. (Source: Ron Halliday, UFO Scotland: The Secret History of
Scotland's UFO Phenomenon, p. 156).